Hockey, Hockey, Hockey...
2/24/2009 11:26:31 AM | Field Hockey
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This past week has been full of playing hockey and training. Every Wednesday night and sometimes Thursday nights I practice with the men's team. The ages on the team range from 17-40, which is awesome. The team is awesome and I enjoy practicing with them and have been learning so much from them. The game is much faster and you must learn to play that way and speed up your game or they will run you over.
This weekend the team played in a HUGE game against Hannover. Hannover and Braunschweig are rival cities and do not like each other at all! The game this weekend was for the regional championship and whoever won moved to next weekend for the finals to determine who moves up a division. There was a fan bus available to ride on with the team. It was great. The game was very intense but Braunschweig pulled it out in the second half only due to Hannover receiving two yellow cards at the same time which left them with three players on the field. At the end of regulation Braunschweig came out with the win and captured the regional championship to move on to the finals next weekend.
Sunday rolled around and it was time for me to play with my indoor team. I am currently playing indoor with the second division team of Braunschweig. The first team I am playing with outside was finished their indoor season when I got here. So, thankfully the second team allowed me to play with them. I have been playing with them this whole time I have been here. We have two games every weekend that are usually on Sundays. This past Sunday we needed to win both games to move up to the next division. And we did! The girls were very happy to move up to the next division and it was great to play with them. They are awesome girls and really took me in as a player. This past week and weekend was an awesome experience and I really enjoyed being around the teams and playing hockey!
